Gruene Hall

Music has poured through its long windows since the 1870s. Stars such as Lyle Lovett and George Strait found early fame on this bluff above the Guadalupe.

High School Football
Spotting Friday night lights in the sea of a dark prairie, I always stop, buy a PTA Fritos pie at the concession stand, and watch life in the first quarter.

Ruby Red
The late writer Jerry Flemmons called Fritos pie the real fall color of Texas, with its amber and umber of cheese, chili, and chips. Add blue and red. Do kids in blue FFA jackets still sell Ruby Red grapefruit from the Rio Grande Valley?

Iced Tea
Clayton Christopher, a Beaumont native, makes his "Mimi's" Sweet Leaf Tea with cane sugar and tea leaves.

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